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Cost of childbirth growing for those with employer-based health insurance

from University of Georgia

Cost of childbirth growing for those with employer-based health insurance University of Georgia Even though Caitlyn and Philip Flanagan have health insurance through their employer, the WellStar West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange, they weren’t immune from the high cost of having a baby. When their daughter, Millie, was born in November 2018, they paid about $6,000 in out-of-pocket costs for the cesarean birth. Before that, the had paid “several thousand” dollars for her prenatal care. “We just paid it off two months ago,” Philip Flanagan said as he scrolled through his online patient portal. READ MORE

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